A zone of operations may sometimes present but a single line of operations , either on account of the configuration of the country, or of the small number of practicable routes for an army found therein.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

An chud ha’ bin zwaggered out of my life, ’twould not ha’ bin
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

But I must not forget that there are others in the room; and among them, standing at a little distance, is Lord De la Zouch, one of Mr. Aubrey's neighbors in Yorkshire.
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

He inragis when he heiris of Lethingtoun, or of zow, or of my brother.
— from The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang

Zool.; obtained on May 4, 1936, by R. A. Cumming, from Vanada, Texada Island, Georgia Strait, British Columbia. Range. —Known only from the type locality.
— from Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by James S. (James Smith) Findley

And the goddess, grey-eyed Athene, spake first, saying: 'Son of Laertes, of the seed of Zeus, Odysseus of many devices, advise thee how thou mayest stretch forth thine hands upon the shameless wooers, who now these three years lord it through thy halls, as they woo thy godlike wife and proffer the gifts of wooing.
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

From our analysis we conclude that Unguentine contains not alum but aluminum acetate (small amounts of alum may be present as impurities in the aluminum acetate), zinc oxid, or more probably impure zinc carbonate, and that the entire quantity of both does not exceed 5 per cent.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

'Anon came the soul of Theban Teiresias, with a golden sceptre in his hand, and he knew me and spake unto me: "Son of Laertes, of the seed of Zeus, Odysseus of many devices, what seekest thou NOW, wretched man, wherefore hast thou left the sunlight and come hither to behold the dead and a land desolate of joy?
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

[384] FOOTNOTES [1] The earliest testimony in favour of Koster is contained in a German volume published at Cologne in 1499, known as the Chronicle of Cologne , which was printed by Ulrich Zell, originally of Mayence, and a well-known follower of Gutenberg and his system.
— from The American Printer: A Manual of Typography Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc. by Thomas MacKellar

It may seem paradoxical to see the peculiar characteristics of Zola or of Mr. George Moore in Middlemarch , but there is much to be said for the view that George Eliot was the direct forerunner of those naturalistic novelists.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

Perhaps you would simply play the bear in The Hunters and the Milkmaid. RODOLPHE: Miss— ZEPHERINA: One of my mother's friends has that part; he won't let you have it.
— from Signora Fantastici (A Dramatic Proverb) by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

(3) One [Pg 272] is the Schoop process by which a wire of zinc or other metal is fed into an oxy-hydrogen air blast of such heat and power that it is projected as a spray of minute drops with the speed of bullets and any object subjected to the bombardment of this metallic mist receives a coating as thick as desired.
— from Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson